50 Religion Ideas You Really Need to Know - Hardcover

Stanford, Peter

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9781848660762: 50 Religion Ideas You Really Need to Know

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ISBN 10: 1848660766 ISBN 13: 9781848660762

Publisher: Chartwell Books, 2010

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Religion: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know offers a clear path through the conceptual and denominational thickets of global religion. Award-winning religious affairs correspondent Peter Stanford begins with an examination of sacred texts, the divine principle and good and evil, before moving on to a discussion of the different traditions within Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the myriad traditions of the East.

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Book Description:

The ultimate guide to the most important ideas in world religion.

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The God-shaped hole.
Sacred texts.
Good and evil.
Life and death.
The Golden Rule.
Rites and rituals.
The life of Christ.
God and Mammon.
Reformation.
The papacy.
Guilt and misogyny.
The Holy Spirit.
Saints and Sinners.
Orthodoxy.
Luther and his successors.
Anglicanism.
Methodism.
Baptists.
Presbyterians.
Sects and cults.
Rapture.
Being Jewish.
Jewish rites of passage.
Kabbalah.
Anti-Semitism.
The birth of Islam.
The Pillars of Islam.
Sunni and Shi'a.
The heart of Islam.
Militant Islam.
The many faces of Hinduism.
Hindu worship.
Samsara.
Jainism.
Sikhism.
Buddha and the Bodhi tree.
Schools of Buddhism.
Buddhist wheel of life.
Confucianism.
Confucius and the Communists.
Taoism.
Shintoism.
Contemporary credos.
Religion and science.
Atheism.
Stewards of creation.
The just war.
The missionary impulse.
Spirituality.
The future of religion.

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